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If these aren't the best Ruger 10/22s, they're certainly the most interesting.Thu, 11 Jan 2018 00:06:29 +0000hourly1http://wordpress.com/Comment on ►First project by LastMariannehttps://bestruger1022.wordpress.com/%e2%96%bathe-first-ruger-1022-project/comment-page-1/#comment-403
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]]>Comment on ►Version with Millet sight by Jeffhttps://bestruger1022.wordpress.com/a-different-set-of-target-sights-in-progress-2/comment-page-1/#comment-397
Mon, 18 Sep 2017 05:10:17 +0000http://bestruger1022.wordpress.com/?page_id=119#comment-397Any way to move the Millett back to the receiver, or is there a decent open sight alternative that can be mounted back there?
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Wed, 22 Jul 2015 20:40:53 +0000http://bestruger1022.wordpress.com/?page_id=512#comment-342I think your red ruger is very nice, Could you give me the recipe for the color?
Thank you . Bob Hill in Oregon.
]]>Comment on ►Version with Millet sight by Will Sitchhttps://bestruger1022.wordpress.com/a-different-set-of-target-sights-in-progress-2/comment-page-1/#comment-341
Sat, 04 Jul 2015 21:11:42 +0000http://bestruger1022.wordpress.com/?page_id=119#comment-341Hello, I’d like to reproduce your Millet / Lyman setup on a 10/22 Takedown. It’s a recent purchase in stainless. I don’t suppose you happen to know if the Takedown barrel and dovetails share geometry with the standard 10/22s that you’ve built?
Thanks, Will
]]>Comment on ►Miscellanea by no one importanthttps://bestruger1022.wordpress.com/%e2%96%bamiscellanea/comment-page-1/#comment-339
Thu, 26 Mar 2015 01:34:39 +0000http://bestruger1022.wordpress.com/?page_id=243#comment-339Er… that’s not the way groups are usually measured.

Center to center between the two furthest apart holes–the smallest circle that will go around all five, in other words–is how it is normally done.

Three round groups tell us little. Five round groups are better. Ten round groups are usually about thirty percent larger than five round groups, but are a more reliable indicator of what kind of accuracy can be expected consistently.

]]>Comment on ►First project by Anonymoushttps://bestruger1022.wordpress.com/%e2%96%bathe-first-ruger-1022-project/comment-page-1/#comment-337
Fri, 13 Mar 2015 07:17:12 +0000http://bestruger1022.wordpress.com/?page_id=150#comment-337A “spark arrestor” for a firearm’s muzzle is called a “flash suppressor.” There are many designs but they generally have prongs about ten calibers long with slots 1/2 to one caliber wide between them and a conical internal geometry that widens going forward. In some designs the prongs meet again or have a ring around the exterior at the front, to prevent them from picking up leaves and other vegetation when carried in the field.

Most high-velocity .22 LR ammunition, when fired from a rifle, goes from supersonic to subsonic right around 50 yards. The transition subjects the projectile to turbulent vacuum drag, which tends to reduce its stability. This is why 100 yard groups with a .22 LR are usually significantly more than twice the size of 50 yard groups. 1/2″ groups at 50 yards can be achieved with a heavy barrel with a tight match-type chamber (which will usually come with a long list of brands and types of ammunition with which it is incompatible) and good quality ammunition relatively easily, at least from an engineering perspective–of course all is dependent upon the end user’s skills. 1″ at 100 yards, though, with a .22? All else being equal, that is not and cannot be nearly so easy to achieve. Turbulent vacuum drag at the transonic transition point is the main culprit. There exists .22 LR ammunition that is designed to exit the muzzle of a rifle at subsonic speeds, and this helps somewhat, but the merest breath of wind blows the projectile about greatly on the way to the target. There are no free lunches to be had here.

Oh. As for suppressors–now legal in many states–what I read about them on the Internet is that suppressors intended for .22 LR handguns are very ammunition-sensitive, but one of the things that helps is attaching them to a pistol with a sufficiently short barrel that the desired ammunition will exit the muzzle at subsonic velocities. Ruger now sells a version of the Mark III pistol with a threaded muzzle, specifically for this application. It has only a 4.5″ barrel. There are integrally suppressed Ruger Mk II and Mk III pistols in use by various US military special-operations groups and have been since the 1980s, or so we are told. I am given to understand that some of the integrally suppressed designs incorporate vented barrels, to bleed off gas pressure and reduce projectile velocity before it even enters the suppressor, sort of like the suppressed Sten Guns made for the UK’s “Special Operations Executive” during the Second World War. As I said, such designs are highly sensitive to variations in ammunition and do not always work as well as one might hope with bulk-pack .22 LR ammunition. Rumor has it that the US military uses CCI Mini-Mag copper-plated 40 grain solids, at least for suppressor testing.

]]>Comment on ►Brown ruger by Anonymoushttps://bestruger1022.wordpress.com/%e2%96%babrown-ruger/comment-page-1/#comment-336
Fri, 13 Mar 2015 06:49:56 +0000http://bestruger1022.wordpress.com/?page_id=539#comment-336If I may make a few observations:

Assuming a sight axis 1.6″ above the bore axis, and assuming that Remington’s muzzle velocity data for that ammunition is honest, and assuming a G1 ballistic coefficient of 0.130 for a .22 rimfire bullet, if you zero at 30 yards the bullet will rise no more than 1/16″ above the line of sight and fall down past it again at 44 yards. At 50 yards the bullet is 0.17″ low, and remains within an inch of line of sight to 65 yards–though at 100 yards it has dropped almost 6″ below line of sight.

What is a useful or appropriate trajectory depends entirely upon the use to which you wish to put the rifle, but I also note that with this particular combination, if you zero at 25 yards it still rises no more than 0.18″ above line of sight to be back exactly on target at 50. So the difference between a 30 yard and a 50 yard zero is less than half a minute of angle.

That having been said, I personally like to zero a scoped .22 at 75 yards, which puts it less than 1 1/4″ above the line of sight at any distance and only 3″ low at 100 yards.

Also, I know that in these days of ammo panics and limited availability, you can’t always be choosy about what .22 ammunition you use, and sometimes weeks or months go by without any being available at all. That having been said, the Remington bulk-pack .22 LR are in my guns dirty and not especially accurate nor reliable; most batches have a 5% dud rate in my guns, and Winchester bulk pack are only slightly better. I wonder whether your groups might improve with ammunition of better quality. CCI Green Tag are very good if you can find them. A good batch of CCI Mini-Mags is almost as good and a bad batch of Mini-Mags is still going to be better than Remington bulk-pack. Winchester used to make a target load called the T22 which was very good in my guns but they don’t make T22 any more. Wolf–the people who import the cheap Russian steel-case centerfire ammunition–also import a “match target” load, which before the current panics ran around $55/brick. It is made in Lapua’s new plant in Germany and is of very good quality.

]]>Comment on ►The joys of tuning by Anonymoushttps://bestruger1022.wordpress.com/%e2%96%bathe-joys-of-tuning/comment-page-1/#comment-326
Wed, 08 Oct 2014 22:22:26 +0000http://bestruger1022.wordpress.com/?page_id=486#comment-326Free floating the receiver, and not the barrel, on a 10/22 is one of those tricks a number of custom gunsmiths use, or so I’ve read.
]]>Comment on ►Version with Millet sight by Anonymoushttps://bestruger1022.wordpress.com/a-different-set-of-target-sights-in-progress-2/comment-page-1/#comment-325
Wed, 08 Oct 2014 21:24:36 +0000http://bestruger1022.wordpress.com/?page_id=119#comment-325To be entirely fair to Ruger, the barrel band on the standard 10/22 is there for decoration only. The barreled receiver is secured to the stock by means of the screw in front of the trigger group. The only reason they put the barrel band on it, I think, was to make the lines of the gun more suggestive of the M1 Carbine, which was a very popular and well-liked firearm fifty years ago.
]]>Comment on ►Bedding the rifle by bestruger1022https://bestruger1022.wordpress.com/%e2%96%babedding-the-rifle-in-progress/comment-page-1/#comment-313
Mon, 18 Aug 2014 22:15:11 +0000http://bestruger1022.wordpress.com/?page_id=204#comment-313Hm. And on my favorite rifle, I don’t use a bedding screw at all. I’m not sure if I wrote this up, but I actually found that using the bedding screw screwed things up. My *receiver* is floated. But then, your barrel and mine are completely different… Feel free to play around, though!
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